Born to explore Fed to endure Meant to do more Taught to be sure Curious kid Raised up to fall Sad in his house now Knowing It all
Tag: Disillusionment
To Try the Sky
A boy, I marveled at the clouds,
So strange and wondrous in the sky;
I’d spread my arms and try to fly,
Admired by the watching crowds.
I knew that I would not stay small,
One day my shoes would scuff their fluff —
But now that I am large enough,
I rarely look at them at all.
So many times, before we die,
We’ve died to all we ever dream:
And clouds become just so much steam,
And boys who dreamed become
Some guy
To share is human:
A Living Place
The world was once alive to me,
Its beauty and its pow’r;
In bits of random scenery:
In lake, and dock, and flow’r
My world was once a living place,
Ere I became so jaded —
For I gave in to blindness, well
Before my light
Had faded
To share is human:
The Lie That Sinketh In
[I would apologize to Francis Bacon for using his quote this way, but he was kind of a jerk. – Owen]
You want lies?
For I have many –
Some, I’ve not yet
Used at all –
Or is it
The truth you’re seeking?
Truth, that gray and
Solemn pall
That will cover
All that matters;
Shielding you from
Happiness —
Truth is,
I am just a liar:
Nothing more and
Nothing less
“It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.” – Francis Bacon, “Essays, Civil and Moral”
